Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert EinsteinThousands of candles can be lit from a single candle and it will never reduce the power of its light... One's knowledge will never be stunt by distributing it among others.
BuddhaEverything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar WildeAnyone can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.
AristotleThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice WalkerPower based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma GandhiAs we look ahead into the next century leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill GatesWhat it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
AristotleMilitant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
Rush LimbaughAll the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor HugoEvil is not power, it is ignorance and misuse of good.
James AllenRespect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint EastwoodNever underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. HeinleinThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous HuxleyEveryone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert EinsteinThe pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaConcentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald ReaganAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James MadisonPower is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma GandhiBeliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them, or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony RobbinsOne thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am, will never work in this town again.
Jim CarreyWhere is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Kahlil GibranAny people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
Abraham LincolnIt is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew JacksonPassion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah WinfreyShe had lost the art of conversation, but not unfortunately the power of speech.
George Bernard ShawA pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich NietzscheEvil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone WeilThe one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
AristotleAll the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami VivekanandaEulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose BierceGiving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'RourkeThere is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John AdamsThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo TolstoyI believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers, by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.
John DeweyThe attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert EinsteinFree enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
Paul RyanAncient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
AristotleFor the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. Humphrey'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William ShakespeareUnless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.
Oprah WinfreyPoliticians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory or happiness.
AristotleLiberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
James MadisonI will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.
Mitt RomneyTime crumbles things, everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
AristotleThe power of Thought the magic of the Mind!
Lord ByronMan is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence and love and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
James AllenLet him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar GracianCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power, but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawA good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
AristotleImagination grows by exercise and, contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset MaughamReligion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard DawkinsDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.
George OrwellSometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
Doug CouplandI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham LincolnThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Herman HesseI call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
Herman HesseYou know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving.
Herman HesseNot to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers, are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Satchel PaigeIn the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone WeilThe desire for power in excess caused angels to fall, the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall, but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come in danger by it.
Francis BaconThat deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.
Albert EinsteinThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James MadisonDesperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin DisraeliGetting and spending we lay waste our powers.
William WordsworthFreedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWithout knowing the force of words it is impossible to know men.
ConfuciusDo not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn RandThere is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SophoclesHe that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel JohnsonNow we have a problem in making our power credible and Vietnam is the place.
John F. KennedyWell I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion which has had a lot of money and power.
Alice WalkerThe good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor W. AdornoThe sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William JamesUnconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. KennedyWe are born to action, and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Rush LimbaughThe incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William HazlittYour duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.
Sai BabaWant balance in your life? Then sure get your own act together but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Stephen CoveyIf we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel it, if we desire to secure peace one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity it must be known that we are at all times ready for War.
George WashingtonEverything that enlarges the sphere of human powers that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do is valuable.
Samuel JohnsonWe do not need more intellectual power we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen we need more of the things that are unseen.
Calvin CoolidgeLiberty according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John AdamsThe general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart MillFortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius CaesarWondrous is the strength of cheerfulness and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time will do it, better will preserve it longer than the sad or sullen.
Thomas CarlylePolitically the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice WalkerThe terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. WhiteThe power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard ShawIt is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador DaliEverything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Wayne DyerOne reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus, we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony RobbinsAir power can either paralyze the enemy's military action, or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources, far greater that what we need in the attack.
Winston ChurchillNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeNever allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor RooseveltThis is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
C. S. LewisThe world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich NietzschePower over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonThe less effort the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce LeeSuch happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John DeweyAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert CamusWhen one sings alone the heart is merged in the song. But when many sing together it acquires a Divine power.
Sai BabaHe who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much but with less power.
PlatoIt's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen KingEvery diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Andrew JacksonGod wears Truth the good seek Truth and the bad are rescued by Truth, Truth liberates, Truth is power, Truth is freedom. It is the lamp that illuminates the heart and dispels doubt and darkness.
Sai BabaOnly through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck PalahniukVote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose BierceI have never seen opponents so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power.
Paul RyanI repeat... that all power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise, that from the people and for the people all springs and all must exist.
Benjamin DisraeliThe truth does not require a majority to prevail ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
Rush LimbaughThey are decided only to be undecided resolved to be irresolute adamant for drift solid for fluidity all-powerful to be impotent.
Winston ChurchillThe world is too much with us, late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William WordsworthThe once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole and now sits in a prison cell.
George W. BushThe power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself.
Winston ChurchillThe reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George EliotThe strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities our families our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America America. In our best days we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities large and small.
Mitt RomneyTo get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Simone WeilIn the general course of human nature A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James Arthur BaldwinNext to enjoying ourselves the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves or more generally in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand RussellOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.In the Bible we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh an act of grace freely given.
Desmond TutuIn every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
Francis BaconThe most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Wilson MiznerPower is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters one thing, to be able to dare!
Fyodor DostoevskyI mean having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before and that took some getting used to. The power was there and every red light was a temptation.
Lance ArmstrongMaking fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'RourkeThe selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced, so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge, selfishness by Love.
James AllenLife is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
VoltaireHe who possesses intelligence is strong, how can the man that is unintelligent be powerful? The elephant of the forest, having lost his senses by intoxication, was tricked into a lake by a small rabbit.
ChanakyaThere is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest, but also the best interests of the world.
Hillary ClintonIn the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonNever forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
VoltaireNew nobility is but the act of power but ancient nobility is the act of time.
Francis BaconThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy great comfort is that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers, I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
Lord ByronIf the people are happy united wealthy and powerful we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund BurkeIf you must break the law do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius CaesarEvery human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose to respond to change.
Stephen CoveyA man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward BeecherWe are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen CoveyThere will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power, and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
PlatoExcessive fear is always powerless.
AeschylusIt is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric HofferMy relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerJustice and power must be brought together so that whatever is just may be powerful and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise PascalWhen anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy GrahamPower is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are you aren't.
Margaret ThatcherOn the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich NietzscheBut to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan WattsPower will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb ColtonSound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Og MandinoOnly those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony RobbinsI believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
George W. BushI protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.
Thomas HuxleyNot necessity not desire - no the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health food a place to live entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry MillerThe radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza let alone cooking it.
Stephen HawkingWar has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound, its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich NietzscheChristianity is not the faith of the complacent the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley Wilberforce Bonhoeffer John Paul the Second and Billy Graham. Each showed in their own way the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
Mitt RomneyAll the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald ReaganWoes and wonders of Power that tonic hell synthesis of poison and panacea.
Emile M. CioranThat all-softening overpowering knell / The tocsin of the soul - the dinner-bell.
Lord ByronThe monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis BaconDemocracy shows not only its power in reforming governments but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
Andrew JacksonPower is action, the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore de BalzacWhen power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts poetry cleanses.
John F. KennedyNothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
OvidThe atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S. TrumanConcentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton FriedmanBe Silent yourself that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation wherever you happen to be. The less you talk the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently you will give up individual discrimination . Because of this you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself.
Sai BabaThe most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
Dave BarryGoals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us, concentrate our energy.
Denis WaitleyYou guys can go in there anytime. Crack open a book. Expand your imagination and read and learn because that is truly the key to success. The more you know the more power you gain.
Kobe BryantPower is not alluring to pure minds.
Thomas JeffersonIt is certainly more agreeable to have power to give than to receive
Winston ChurchillI'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words I think are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Drew BarrymoreA horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong powerful beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
Pam BrownThe future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama your agenda is not new. It's not change and it's not hope.
Rush LimbaughWhat we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. LewisEvery man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn RandTo be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGod has agents everywhere and their powers are vast.
Sai BabaIt is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
James AllenThe atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Lyndon B. JohnsonNor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity, or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Kahlil GibranIt takes tremendous discipline to control the influence the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint EastwoodTo make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
PlutarchI would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy without pollution or global warming.
Stephen HawkingThe demon that you can swallow gives you it Joseph Campbell
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint its wealth with our wisdom its power with our purpose.
John F. KennedyReligions which condemn the pleasures of sense drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand RussellThe United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.
Winston ChurchillThere is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de BalzacPower always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John AdamsA mountain is broken even by a thunderbolt: is the thunderbolt therefore as big as the mountain? No he whose power prevails is really mighty, what is there in bulk?
ChanakyaWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund BurkeThe two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
EpictetusWhoever is new to power is always harsh.
AeschylusEverything is generated through your own will power.
Ray BradburySo they [the Government] go on in strange paradox decided only to be undecided resolved to be irresolute adamant for drift solid for fluidity all-powerful for impotence.
Winston ChurchillMagnetism as you recall from physics class is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
Dave BarryThe world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
ChanakyaMost powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaRank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter DruckerThe measure of a man is what he does with power.
PlatoPower and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonKindness is in our power even when fondness is not.
Samuel JohnsonLove is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor W. AdornoI am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were I should be quite ready to dictate.
Winston ChurchillCommunism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Vladimir LeninLiberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.
Richard BachThe almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others nor our own powerlessness stupefy us.
Theodor W. AdornoPassions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe